“It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.”

— Miguel de Unamuno

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”

— Samuel Beckett

“Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.”

— Wallace Stevens

“We are as forlorn as children lost in the woods. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours.”

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“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”

— Erich Fromm

“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”

— Simone Weil

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”

— Immanuel Kant

“Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them.”

— Edward R. Murrow

“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”

— Albert Camus

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”

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“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”

— Doris Lessing

“Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

— Will Durant

“Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.”

— Henry Miller

“Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.”

— George Orwell

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Yes, be patient with me. My heart is heavy.”

— Albert Camus

“You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.”

— Karl Popper